Lost and Found: Ethics, subjecthood and contemporary art

Findings — on found photography

 Photography is the medium of record. What does the record tell us? People move on from their photographs: leaving behind their records.
 Shuffling through a vast collection of found photographs we will see if we can find a little meaning or coherence in them. We will take something from the images of others as if on a dare.This talk will look at what we might take from the great unhinged album of found vernacular snaps. These recently redundant photographic remnants might be, after all, telling records which hold some ideas of their own.